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Hooked : drug war films in Britain, Canada, and the United States

Title
Hooked : drug war films in Britain, Canada, and the United States / Susan C. Boyd.
Author
Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Description
xii, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge advances in criminology ; 4
Uniform Title
Routledge advances in criminology ; 4.
Subject
  • Drugs in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Great Britain
  • Motion pictures > Canada
  • Motion pictures > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
Contents
1. Moral regulation, film censorship, and law -- 2. Illegal-drug users and addiction narratives : the early film years -- 3. The 60s on : counterculture, addiction-as-disease, and mandatory-treatment narratives -- 4. Ruptures in addiction narratives : pleasure, harm reduction, consumer culture, and regulation -- 5. Drug dealers : a nation under siege -- 6. Vilified women and maternal myths -- 7. Challenges to the drug war : 1980 to 2006.
ISBN
  • 9780415957069
  • 0415957060
LCCN
  • 2007035124
  • 40015023547
OCLC
  • ocn167507863
  • 167507863
  • SCSB-5392704
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries